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Sinopec (China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation) has deployed Aperto’s PacketMAX WiMAX products to build a region-wide wireless broadband network in the Sichuan province of China.

Thailand’s telecoms regulator National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) plans to auction WiMAX, 3.9G (LTE) licences in September.

Alcatel-Lucent and Telefonica have announced that they have successfully performed the first LTE call in Latin America using the 700 MHz frequency band “ which is particularly well suited to…

Alcatel-Lucent plans to open LTE IOT center in Taiwan at Yearend by the end of this year according to Alain Biston, Alcatel-Lucent’s president for North and South Asia operations.

ZTE and CSL have been awarded the LTE Infrastructure Innovation award as part of the Global Telecoms Business Innovation Awards 2010. 

Kineto Wireless and Bravo Tech Inc today announced that the companies are demonstrating an end-to-end TD-SCDMA-based femtocell solution at a facility in Shanghai.

On the 13th day of the auction the Pan-India bidding price has reached Rs 11,517.9 crore (approx US$2.45 billion), more than six times the reserve price of Rs 1,750 crore.

Polish mobile service providers PTK Centertel (the operator of Orange network) and P4 (network operator, Play) plan to create a joint venture for the upcoming LTE spectrum rights in 2.6 G

Russian long-distance operator Rostelecom has applied to the State Commission for Radio Frequencies for construction of LTE networks in Sochi, reports Vedomosti. 

NTT DOCOMO has started verifying its new commercial mobile network system based on the LTE in the Tokyo area, prior to the full-scale launch of extra-high-speed LTE commercial service in…

WiMAX equipment and device revenue saw a moderate decline worldwide in the first quarter of 2010, down 2% to $303 million, according to Infonetics Research report.

Sprint claims that friday sales of HTC EVO 4G marked the largest quantity of a single phone sold in one day ever for Sprint.

Up to 22 LTE networks will be in service by end 2010 according to a new Global mobile Suppliers Association (GSA) report, further at least 45 are expected to be…

ZTE has announced that it has launched the industry’s first commercial TD-LTE base stations: BBU- B8300 and RRU- R8962. 

Ireland’s Commission for Communications Regulation (ComReg) has confirmed that Ericsson, using a test licence issued by ComReg, has done successful LTE trails in Ireland. 

By the end of 2010 while up to 20 LTE networks are expected to be live, but LTE will only make up 11% of installed base stations by the end…

At 11th day of the auction the Pan-India bidding price has reportedly crossed Rs 98.37 billion (US$2.0 billion).

picoChip announced that it has enhanced its picoXcellâ„¢ platform to address the need to support large numbers of smartphones on a femtocell.

mimoOn has shipped its advanced LTE Test-Mobile, mi!TestMOBILE, to a major infrastructure manufacturer in the Asia Pacific region.  

Huawei has won the 2010 3G CDMA Industry Achievement Award for Network Technology Innovation presented by the CDMA Development Group (CDG) at the second annual CDMA World Forum in Shanghai.

Elisa and Nokia Siemens Networks have started  a 4G LTE network at the beginning of this year in Finland for pre-commercial use.

Sonera is rolling out Finland’s first 4G network in Turku.

Personal and Ericsson have launched LTE trial in Argentina that includes wireless broadband internet with peak speeds of 50 Megabits per second.

China Mobile plans to team up with foreign carriers to establish a TD-LTE trial network overseas in the next six months, reports China Daily.

Ericsson is conducting LTE trials in Dublin and have achieved speeds up to 80MBits/sec, reports  Irish Times. Test was conducted in 2.3 GHz band.

ABI Research has declared Samsung Top Mobile WiMAX Base Station Vendor.

As India’s BWA/WiMAX spectrum auction is almost 90% complete, the Pan-India bidding price has reportedly crossed Rs 89.8 billion (US$1.9 billion) on the 9th day of the auction. 

Scartel, under the brand Yota, had announced to drop Wimax in favor of LTE last week. “LTE network is already being planned in Russia” said company CEO Denis Sverdlov.

Alcatel-Lucent and China Mobile today announced that they have successfully completed the first high-definition video call over a TD-LTE network at the Shanghai World Expo.

At the Next Generation Mobile Networks (NGMN) Industry Conference today, Nokia Siemens Networks announced that it has fully integrated TD-LTE with its existing mobile platforms including base stati